Herald News: Letters, July 28, 2013

Major League Baseball needs to find a way to reestablish credibility. The game is struggling mightily and can't seem to shake this dark cloud of steroids hovering over it.

Over the years, Commissioner Bud Selig, the owners and many members of the media turned a blind eye to steroid users, some of whom were credited for "saving" baseball in the late 1990s after a strike shut down the game in 1994.

As a former college baseball player and high school coach, my interest in the major leagues has decreased over the years due to a lack of credibility of the product on the field.

I don't want to hear an apology from Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. We've heard it before, and it has fallen flat. He pledged his help to the Taylor Hooton Foundation, a foundation created in memory of a young high school baseball player who killed himself after dealing with depression resulting from the anabolic steroids he was using.

The foundation website lists its partners as Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees and many other prominent organizations. If Major League Baseball really wants to be a partner and clean up its act, adopt a zero-tolerance policy. One failed drug test and you are gone, which is what happens with many other jobs in the country.

I've heard numerous media people say that A-Rod needs to own up to his actions in order to save his integrity. In the case of Rodriguez and confirmed steroid user Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers, you can't save what doesn't exist.

Scott Zymet

Paramus

Lights in Tenafly

are out too often

I've always longed to visit exotic places, but now I find I don't have to, because I live in a Third World country called Bergen County, where blackouts and brownouts abound. (I'm typing this as quickly as I can in one of the intervals when the juice is on.)

Public Service Electric and Gas Co. apologizes profusely, explaining that officials are improving things, or testing things, or something, but nobody listens any longer. Just about everyone on my block has signaled their cynicism by buying noisy generators. Except me.

I still cling to the quaint idea that when you pay very high taxes you shouldn't have to be your own electric company.

George McKenna

Tenafly

Give our veterans

a monthly stipend

Our country gives millions and millions of dollars of aid to other countries, some of which don't even like us.

But when our veterans go to war and come home, some lose their jobs and eventually even their houses and families. Some wind up homeless, living on the street.

To combat that, our government should give veterans a monthly stipend for what they have done.

Herald News: Letters, July 28, 2013

Major League Baseball needs to find a way to reestablish credibility. The game is struggling mightily and can't seem to shake this dark cloud of steroids hovering over it.

Over the years, Commissioner Bud Selig, the owners and many members of the media turned a blind eye to steroid users, some of whom were credited for "saving" baseball in the late 1990s after a strike shut down the game in 1994.

As a former college baseball player and high school coach, my interest in the major leagues has decreased over the years due to a lack of credibility of the product on the field.

I don't want to hear an apology from Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. We've heard it before, and it has fallen flat. He pledged his help to the Taylor Hooton Foundation, a foundation created in memory of a young high school baseball player who killed himself after dealing with depression resulting from the anabolic steroids he was using.

The foundation website lists its partners as Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees and many other prominent organizations. If Major League Baseball really wants to be a partner and clean up its act, adopt a zero-tolerance policy. One failed drug test and you are gone, which is what happens with many other jobs in the country.

I've heard numerous media people say that A-Rod needs to own up to his actions in order to save his integrity. In the case of Rodriguez and confirmed steroid user Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers, you can't save what doesn't exist.

Scott Zymet

Paramus

Lights in Tenafly

are out too often

I've always longed to visit exotic places, but now I find I don't have to, because I live in a Third World country called Bergen County, where blackouts and brownouts abound. (I'm typing this as quickly as I can in one of the intervals when the juice is on.)

Public Service Electric and Gas Co. apologizes profusely, explaining that officials are improving things, or testing things, or something, but nobody listens any longer. Just about everyone on my block has signaled their cynicism by buying noisy generators. Except me.

I still cling to the quaint idea that when you pay very high taxes you shouldn't have to be your own electric company.

George McKenna

Tenafly

Give our veterans

a monthly stipend

Our country gives millions and millions of dollars of aid to other countries, some of which don't even like us.